Combine Shortcutbar and taskpanel?

Yes this is possible. I am doing it in an application I have. How are you creating the taskpanel?

Well, let's give it a shot....

The way I have done this is to create a class for each pane of your shortcutbar and base it off of CXTPShortcutBarPane (class CMyPane :  public CXTPShortcutBarPane).

Make sure the class has a CXTPTaskPanel object defined (CXTPTaskPanel m_wndTaskPanel)

In the Create Function of this class is where I create my TaskPanel(s).

-->  m_wndTaskPanel.Create(WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS _CLIPSIBLINGS|WS_CLIPCHILDREN, CXTPEmptyRect(), this, ID_SHORTCUT_SHORTPANE);
<--

where the last parameter is the ID of the Shortcutbar window you want the task panel created in.

So in the MainFrame when you create the ShortCutBar window you do something like this:
         &nbs p;  m_wndShortcutBar.Create(WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_CLI PCHILDREN|WS_CLIPSIBLINGS, CRect(0, 0, 0, 0), this,  ID_SHORTCUTBAR);
         &nbs p; 
VERIFY(m_paneMyPane.Create(_T("MyPane"   ), &m_wndShortcutBar));

CXTPShortcutBarItem* pItem = m_wndShortcutBar.AddItem(ID_SHORTCUT_SHORTPANE,  & nbsp; &m_paneMyPane);

where:
m_wndShortcutBar is a CXTPShortcutBar
and
m_paneMyPane is a CMyPane

One more thing that tripped me up a little was when/where the shortcutbar is created. If you follow some of CodeJock's Samples where they create these things you should be OK.

Hope this helps!